Wanna be like Mike? Buy his card and sneakers for $10,000 to – $4 million
22 May 2022 |
5:08 am
Christie's Auction house will auction off five sneakers and a card from the career of basketball legend Michael Jordan, it showed Reuters in an exclusive at its Manhattan location Monday (May 16).
The auction house is expecting the items to garner a total of $4 million during the two-week auction that will run from June 1st to June 14th.
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